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" I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language. "

Tracee Ellis Ross

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" Politics is tricky for me. For most of my life, I didn't think it applied to me. "

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" Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am. "

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" I think, for me, my goal is to continue to be teachable. I can't see around corners, but I want to be able to walk enough in my life where I go around more corners than I ever thought I could go around. "

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" I have a few rules on lipstick... I don't wear gloss because I can't talk properly. I like matte lipsticks; I like an opaque shade that you can't see my lip color through at all. "

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" I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it. "

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" I eat in the same philosophy that I live with: joyfully! "

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" I have started using the expression 'compassionate activism': It's about keeping my heart open so that I can understand the point of view of the other person. "

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" We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people. "

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" Keeping the facts differentiated from the fantasy is incredibly helpful in gathering your information as you discover if a person is a match for you. "

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" I think my biggest tip - and I consider it a part of my beauty routine - is getting my sleep, without a doubt. I do a true eight hours. "

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" I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape. "

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" Share shame so you are not left alone with it. If you can't find another person, get a journal. I didn't say make a video on Snapchat. It's for you, not anyone else. "

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" Having been in the business for a while, I never like to look forward. You kind of enjoy what's happening while it's happening and leave the rest up to God, the angels, the trees, the stars - whatever you want to call it. "

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" Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be. "

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" When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite 'milkmaid' braid. "

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" Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us. "

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" Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression. "

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" I always had a thin frame, but when you hit 40 and eat french fries three days in a row, it's like, 'What happened?' "

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" I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?' "

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" I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.' "

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" I used to think 40 was old. Now I think, 'Hey, 40's hot!' "

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" We live in a culture where people are constantly telling us how to get what we want, and within that message is, 'You need to be something other than you are.' "

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" I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night. "

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" In this day and age, I ask anyone I date right away: 'Are you married? Are you in a relationship with anyone? Does anyone think they're in a relationship with you?' And by the way, if someone says, 'Yes, I am dating other people,' that's not necessarily a deal breaker. But you have to communicate it, not hide it. "

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" My weight fluctuates. I have years where I wear a size 10, and years where I wear a size 4. "

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" We should all do what we can in our daily lives to remember that we are glorious and powerful. "

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" Julia Louis-Dreyfus is like a hero, to have played different comedic roles. She gets sexier, funnier, and better with time. "

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" There are things about my body that I don't love, but I'm not trying to look perfect every day - I'm trying to look like me! "

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" Career-wise, there are so many things where you don't get what you think you want. I've had to make space for, 'Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?' Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning. "

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